Mr. Wong is President and CEO of D2Audio Corporation, maker of the world’s only intelligent digital audio amplifiers. He has over 23 years experience in executive and general management, marketing, and the development of mixed signal products and semiconductors. Previously, Mr. Wong was CEO at Primarion Inc, a company focused on I/O and Power Management ICs. Before Primarion, he held senior management positions at TRW, heading the mixed signal IC business, and was an engineer at Xerox Microelectronics Center. Mr. Wong holds a BSEE from University of California, Los Angeles, a MSEE from University of Southern California, has taken graduate management classes at UCLA Anderson School of Management, and serves on the Board of Advisors for the University of California, Davis Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. D2Audio Corporation supplies a full line of cost efficient, powerful, multi-channel amplifier ICs, firmware, and system level solutions for the consumer media and professional audio segments. The patented intelligent digital audio engine technology and firmware give D2Audio's digital amplifiers market leading performance and superior sound quality, along with a wide range of customization features.
Mr. Sullivan is the President and CEO of Image Trends, Inc., a company specializing in image enhancement technologies provided to major OEMs in the photographic industry. Prior to his current position he was General Manager of the Kodak Austin Development Center (KADC). The KADC was formed when Kodak purchased Applied Science Fiction (ASF) where Dan was the President and CEO. Dan is also active in the community and is a member of the Austin Technology Council board of directors. Prior to joining ASF, Dan was the Vice President for Asia Pacific Technical Operations at IBM. He spent 25 years with IBM in development, sales, marketing, strategy, intellectual property licensing and OEM operations. Mr. Sullivan was instrumental in the formation of a unified Digital Versatile Disc (DVD) format and in facilitating cooperative agreements on digital copyright protection with the motion picture, recording, consumer electronics and computer industries. He negotiated and authored the agreement on digital audio copy protection with the five major recording labels. Dan spent five years as a reconnaissance pilot with the U. S. Air Force serving in Japan, Vietnam and the US where he received three Air Medals and the Distinguished Flying Cross. He holds a Master of Science degree from the University of Southern California.
Dan has been active in the smart card industry for almost 20 years. He was CEO of Gemplus North America, a subsidiary of the world's leading smart card manufacturer, CEO of ZebraPass, an electronic ticketing startup backed by Nokia Ventures, and has held management and sales positions at NCR and Micro Card Technologies. Dan is also on the AWA Steering Committee, and represents AWA to the ATC Board. Previously, Dan was Chairman and President of the Smart Card Industry Association.
Ted Heydinger started his own government relations practice in August of 2001 and currently serves clients in Washington, D.C. and Austin. His practice focuses on helping associations and corporations prepare and implement their lobbying strategies. He also guides expansion of their government sales divisions.
Prior to that Ted was Director of Government Relations for Dell Computer Corporation responsible for federal, state, and local issues. Ted opened Dell’s Washington, D.C. office in 1996 before moving to Austin in 1998. He also managed Dell’s government relations during its expansion into Tennessee.
From 1984 to 1996 Ted was Vice President for Government Relations at the Information Technology Industry Council, the computer industry trade association in Washington, where he was responsible for managing the association’s lobbying team on all industry priorities, both national and international.
Ted was a Legislative Counsel for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, where he also served as Acting Director of Congressional Action from 1977 to 1984. Prior to that he was a legislative assistant to two Members of Congress form Ohio, his home state. While completing graduate work at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, he was a classroom teacher for two years before serving as a professional campaign manager to several races at the federal and state levels, and as a volunteer advisor for others.
He is married to Charlene Vanlier Heydinger and resides in Austin with their two children.
Alisha Ring is the President of the Austin Technology Council. After five years of extensive media sales and marketing work in New York City, she returns to Austin to build and develop the Austin Technology climate. Alisha holds a degree from the University of Texas at Austin in Communications and Business.
Arjuna ("Arjun") Sanga assumed duties at The University of Texas System (UT System) as Associate Vice Chancellor for Technology Transfer in October 2005. Before coming to the UT System, Sanga served as Corporate Counsel for the University of Kansas Center for Research (KUCR), a nonprofit corporation charged with managing research administration for the Lawrence campus University of Kansas (KU). In that role he provided advice for the full range of university research issues. Sanga worked on compliance issues relating to personnel, technology transfer and intellectual property. He also worked with researchers, faculty and administrators on a wide variety of legal issues.
Sanga worked on intellectual property and technology transfer challenges facing researchers and universities, including research contracts and license agreements. KU’s rate of increase in research funding during the past few years has been among the highest in the nation. This has been facilitated by multi-institutional agreements in which Sanga has played an integral role. Two particularly large awards, the most significant of their kind, have been obtained recently at KU, an NSF Engineering Research Center (ERC) and an NSF Science and Technology Center.
Sanga coordinated and negotiated purchase through bankruptcy proceedings of several specialized laboratory buildings owned by a defunct local pharmaceutical company resulting in a competitive advantage for KU in their bid for the ERC based on its ability to commit the newly acquired space for the Center, as well as for two major NIH projects.
Sanga received his juris doctor of law from the University of Missouri-Kansas City and his bachelor of arts in mathematics from the University of Washington, with an emphasis in chemistry and computer science. He is a registered patent attorney and a member of the Kansas Bar and Missouri Bar.
As the UT System’s first Associate Vice Chancellor for Technology Transfer, Mr. Sanga provides innovative and strategic leadership, coordination, and facilitation of major technology transfer initiatives and policy. This includes developing and implementing strategies to expand and enhance research funding to UT System institutions.